Book Study Group

Deepen your connections and your understanding.

Book Study Group
Book Study Group

Session 1 , 04/29/2025

Session 2 , 05/27/2025

Session 3 , 06/24/2025

Book Study Group

Session 1 , 07/29/2025

Session 2 , 08/26/2025

Session 3 , 09/30/2025

Book Study Group

Session 1 , 10/28/2025

Session 2 , 11/25/2025

Session 3 , 12/30/2025

Book Study Group

Session 1 , 01/27/2026

Session 2 , 02/24/2026

Session 3 , 03/31/2026

Expand your knowledge base

Engage in a three-months long study

This warm, open and inviting group reads books together on topics germane to coaching, spirituality, development, trauma, etc. Each month the group engages in a discussion with each and the author.

How it works:

We’ll send some provocative study questions; all you do is read and connect to Zoom for the calls. The group reconstitutes itself each quarter and is composed of new participants and several returning members, some of whom have been in this Study Group together for many years.

Past authors include Michael Meade, Robert Kegan & Lisa Laskow Lahey, Ann Weiser-Cornell, David Whyte, Marshall Rosenberg, A.H. Almaas, Malcolm Gladwell, Bill Torbert, Wendy Palmer, Meg Wheatley, Juanita Brown, Otto Scharmer, Loch Kelly, and many more.

Spring Quarter 2025

All calls take place in Pacific Time. Convert to local time here.

Bruce Tift, author of Already Free

April 29, 2025, 5-7pm PT

More psychotherapists are adopting meditation, while many Buddhists are exploring psychology because both seek freedom from suffering, though with different methods. Bruce Tift, in Already Free, explores how these two perspectives intersect. He explains how psychotherapy’s “Developmental” approach, focused on childhood wounds, both contradicts and aligns with Buddhism’s “Fruitional” view, which suggests freedom is always present.

Tift provides insights into connecting with authentic experience, releasing limiting behaviors, and improving relationships. By combining Western and Eastern approaches, Tift believes we can embrace all of life’s richness, disturbances, and completeness.

Paul Wyman, author of Part of Me: Learn Who You Really Are, What’s Driving You, and How to Get Out of Your Own Way (Inner Team Dialogue)

May 27, 2025, 5-7pm PT

Ever found yourself torn between two choices, thinking, a part of me wants this, but another part wants that? This book explores the many parts within you, explaining what they are, how they shape your thoughts and emotions, and how you can work with them to overcome inner conflicts.

Part of Me introduces the Inner Team Dialogue approach, profiling 50 common parts to help you understand what drives you and what holds you back. With over 25 years of research, it offers a practical guide to self-awareness, decision-making, and inner harmony.

By learning to collaborate with your inner team, you’ll gain clarity, self-compassion, and a greater sense of peace.

Joy Khoo, author of Nature’s Guide for Leaders

June 24, 2025, 5-7pm PT

Nature’s Guide for Leaders by Joy Khoo draws from the author’s experience as a leadership coach to explore how nature-based practices can foster leadership development. The book highlights real-life stories from coaching sessions conducted in natural settings, showcasing how leaders gained valuable insights and clarity that enhanced their growth and decision-making.

Through these stories, Khoo illustrates the transformative power of nature in unlocking leadership potential. The book also incorporates practical exercises that readers can use to apply nature-based principles to their own leadership journey. In the final chapter, Khoo provides actionable nature-inspired tools designed to help readers deepen their connection to both themselves and the natural world, promoting effective leadership and personal growth.

Winter Quarter 2025

All calls take place in Pacific Time. Convert to local time here.

Ann Weiser Cornell, author of Untangling: How You Can Transform What’s Impossibly Stuck

January 28, 2025, 5-7pm PT

What if the problems in your life that seem impossible to solve are actually the key to your greatest growth? Untangling®, a method created by two experts in inner awareness, reveals that being “stuck” isn’t an endpoint, but a clue to where transformation can occur. These problems, called Tangles, are full of conflicting inner Parts waiting to heal and release their energy. Through Untangling, you can learn how to resolve these conflicts and shift from stuckness to flow. Are you ready to turn your most persistent struggles into opportunities for growth?

Richard Strozzi-Heckler, author of Embodying the Mystery: Somatic Wisdom for Emotional, Energetic, and Spiritual Awakening

February 25, 2025, 5-7pm PT

Richard Strozzi-Heckler, a founding elder of the Somatics movement, shares profound stories spanning seven decades, exploring embodiment, meditation, aikido, and leadership. From an early encounter with death revealing impermanence to apprenticeships with masterful teachers, out-of-body journeys, meditation retreats in Asia, martial arts training in Japan, and confronting his father’s trauma, his experiences illuminate a transformative path.

Each story includes reflections and inquiries, inviting readers to engage with his quest for self-realization. Through successes, failures, and struggles, Strozzi-Heckler reveals the wisdom gained from teachers, practices, and community, offering deep insights into the embodied spiritual journey toward growth and awakening.

Roxanne Cameron, author of THE COACH ON MY SHOULDER: Twelve Executive Coaching Practices to Optimize Leadership Intelligence (LI)

April 1, 2025, 5-7pm PT

The Coach on My Shoulder redefines executive coaching by equipping coaches with tools for transformational change. Roxanne Cameron blends theory and practice, presenting 12 proven executive coaching practices to address common leadership challenges. Drawing on over 20 years of international coaching experience, the book provides actionable insights, practical tools, and client stories to enhance coaching effectiveness.

These coaching practices can be adapted to most coaching methodologies, organizational cultures, leadership styles, and roles. Key features include the Three Levels of Coaching, which provide a coherent framework for diverse coaching activities, and the Four Qualities of Presence, essential for leadership intelligence.

The book also explores strategies for developing leadership presence, offering practical guidance on cultivating resilience, reframing limiting beliefs, inspiring others, and empowering adaptive problem-solving. This comprehensive resource enables coaches to foster transformational change and help leaders achieve impactful business outcomes.

Fall Quarter 2024

All calls take place in Pacific Time. Convert to local time here.

Glenn Wallis, author of Nietzsche Now!: The Great Immoralist on the Vital Issues of Our Time

October 29, 2024, 5-7pm PT

Ulrich Baer, editor and translator of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Nietzsche on Love

November 26, 2024, 5-7pm PT

Charles Spinosa, one of the authors of Leadership as Masterpiece Creation: What Business Leaders Can Learn from the Humanities about Moral Risk-Taking

December 30, 2024, 5-7pm PT

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Foundations of Coaching

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Foundations of Coaching

05/13/2025 – 05/15/2025 | Virtual (Pacific) | By Carole Henmi

Our introductory program, Foundations of Coaching, gives you hands-on experience with the Integral Coaching methodology, with plenty of space for conversation.

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